About Us

Northbow is a co-GP-oriented real estate private equity firm that supports Sponsors via equity, debt solutions, balance sheet assistance, legal, and accounting. The firm is capable of LP equity investments for select projects.

We combine deep execution expertise with diverse market knowledge to work collaboratively with partners to achieve their goals.

Our Team

Northbow is a team of industry experts driven to capitalize on opportunities to create value with partners who maintain similar core values.

Zach Shipps
Principal

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

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Zach Shipps
Principal

Biography

Zach Shipps is the Founder of Northbow. Prior to founding Northbow, Mr. Shipps was a Vice President in the Capital Markets division of Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) where he sourced and structured over $1.7B in debt and equity across asset types in the U.S. working with clients to source and structure capital to best execute on their business plans. Prior to JLL, he was an Associate with Argosy Real Estate, a $200MM opportunistic real estate fund which invests across major asset classes within the United States where he was responsible for acquisition selection, underwriting, and asset management. 

Mr. Shipps holds a Master’s in Real Estate with a Finance concentration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a NAREIM Fellow and a B.S. in Biology and Business Management from Samford University. Zach resides in Georgia with his wife and their four children. 

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

Biography

Bernardo Sacchini is the Director of Capital Markets for Northbow. Mr. Sacchini also serves as a board member of SSA Group, a family-owned real estate firm with more than 35 years of operations in Venezuela. The SSA Group, under their long-term strategic view, has committed resources and has already started real estate operations in Spain and the US. The group aims to become the 2nd real estate company in the country to enter the Venezuelan capital markets. Bernardo holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UCAB in Caracas, Venezuela and a master’s degree in Real Estate Development with a concentration in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bernardo resides in Venezuela with his wife Johanna and their two daughters.

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Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

Biography

Gary Summers is the Chief Financial Officer of Northbow and Sixty West. Mr. Summers has been with Sixty West since 2018 and Northbow since 2020. Prior to joining Northbow and Sixty West, he worked in banking/finance as a loan officer servicing the Southeast Missouri area. The knowledge and analytical skills he learned during that time has proven to be key to success in his role. Mr. Summers graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University in 2014 and is currently a CPA Candidate. Gary resides in Missouri along with his wife and their two children.

Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

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Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

Biography

Nick Wenzel is a Senior Associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Wenzel served as a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young’s Real Estate Strategy and Transactions team. At Ernst & Young, Mr. Wenzel performed real estate valuations for a variety of clients including REITs, private equity firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He also assisted companies with year end and purchase price accounting support by acting as an auditor’s specialist. As an auditor’s specialist, he worked with the acquisition and asset management teams of clients to review and sign off on their real estate analysis. At Ernst & Young, Nick’s clients included: The Carlyle Group, Greystar, Tishman Speyer, National Retail Properties (NYSE: NNN), Cortland Partners, Columbia Property Trust, and Asia Capital Real Estate (ACRE). Nick holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Nick resides in Georgia with his wife and their son.

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Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

Biography

Hogan Barnes is an associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow in April of 2020, Mr. Barnes served as an analyst at Jones Lang Lasalle (NYSE: JLL) on their capital markets team specializing in debt and equity placement as well as multifamily investment sales. At JLL, Hogan was involved in numerous transactions across a multitude of asset classes such as office, industrial, retail, multi-family, student housing, and hotel throughout the Southeast working for a variety of clients including REITs and private equity firms. Responsibilities while at JLL included underwriting, due diligence management, and marketing material production. Mr. Barnes holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Georgia, where he majored in finance.

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Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

Biography

Carter Mize Jr. is an Assistant Controller at Northbow Partners. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Mize served as a Senior Auditor at J.M. Huber. At J.M. Huber, Mr. Mize led audits over all three of J.M. Huber’s portfolio companies and their manufacturing plants, both domestic and international. He assisted in the department’s development of data analytics and he also held an advisory role where he created process flows and implemented controls for other departments. Prior to J.M. Huber, he was a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young where he assisted and led financial statement audits over both private and public clients

Carter graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting. Carter resides in Georgia with his wife.

Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

Elizabeth D’Aversa
Director of Operations

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Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

Biography

Ashley Mayer is counsel for Northbow Partners, LLC where she focuses on corporate, financial, and real estate matters for the company. Mrs. Mayer has worked for private law firms with a focus on transactional work for over a decade, serving as an associate attorney with Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri and later working with a real estate boutique firm in Dexter, Missouri. She counsels clients in conjunction with business entity planning and formatting, structuring and management of real estate investment vehicles, private lending, joint ventures, corporate restructure, debt and equity financing, tax free exchanges, and the acquisition, sale, construction, development, leasing, and management of real estate. Mrs. Mayer is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia (B.A. 2008; J.D., 2011) and is licensed to practice law in the State of Missouri and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ashley resides in Missouri along with her husband Dustin, and their three kids.

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Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

Biography

Ben is the Director of Finance for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Ressel worked in the commercial banking world with both corporate and privately owned lending institutions from 2000 to 2009. Ben then joined Sixty West in 2016 bringing 16 years of banking and finance experience. Having worked both for and with Northbow and Sixty West, Mr. Ressel has assisted with funding for over $500 million in transactions in 30 plus states. Mr. Ressel works with multiple lenders and capital groups to help manage the company’s entire debt portfolio. Ben graduated from Columbia College in 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University in 2012.

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Elizabeth D’Aversa​
Director of Operations

Biography

Elizabeth D’Aversa is the Director of Operations for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mrs. D’Aversa served as a Procurement Manager in Capital Investments for WestRock in the Pulp and Paper industry. Elizabeth started her career in chemical manufacturing where she managed facility operations as a Production Engineer for SABIC. Mrs. D’Aversa holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama’s College of Engineering. Elizabeth resides in Georgia with her husband Hayden, and their cat.

Zach Shipps
Principal

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

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Zach Shipps
Principal

Biography

Zach Shipps is the Founder of Northbow. Prior to founding Northbow, Mr. Shipps was a Vice President in the Capital Markets division of Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) where he sourced and structured over $1.7B in debt and equity across asset types in the U.S. working with clients to source and structure capital to best execute on their business plans. Prior to JLL, he was an Associate with Argosy Real Estate, a $200MM opportunistic real estate fund which invests across major asset classes within the United States where he was responsible for acquisition selection, underwriting, and asset management. 

Mr. Shipps holds a Master’s in Real Estate with a Finance concentration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a NAREIM Fellow and a B.S. in Biology and Business Management from Samford University. Zach resides in Georgia with his wife and their four children. 

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

Biography

Bernardo Sacchini is the Director of Capital Markets for Northbow. Mr. Sacchini also serves as a board member of SSA Group, a family-owned real estate firm with more than 35 years of operations in Venezuela. The SSA Group, under their long-term strategic view, has committed resources and has already started real estate operations in Spain and the US. The group aims to become the 2nd real estate company in the country to enter the Venezuelan capital markets. Bernardo holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UCAB in Caracas, Venezuela and a master’s degree

in Real Estate Development with a concentration in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bernardo resides in Venezuela with his wife Johanna and their two daughters.

Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

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Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

Biography

Gary Summers is the Chief Financial Officer of Northbow and Sixty West. Mr. Summers has been with Sixty West since 2018 and Northbow since 2020. Prior to joining Northbow and Sixty West, he worked in banking/finance as a loan officer servicing the Southeast Missouri area. The knowledge and analytical skills he learned during that time has proven to be key to success in his role. Mr. Summers graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University in 2014 and is currently a CPA Candidate. Gary resides in Missouri along with his wife and their two children.

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Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

Biography

Nick Wenzel is a Senior Associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Wenzel served as a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young’s Real Estate Strategy and Transactions team. At Ernst & Young, Mr. Wenzel performed real estate valuations for a variety of clients including REITs, private equity firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He also assisted companies with year end and purchase price accounting support by acting as an auditor’s specialist. As an auditor’s specialist, he worked with the acquisition and asset management teams of clients to review and sign off on their real estate analysis. At Ernst & Young, Nick’s clients included: The Carlyle Group, Greystar, Tishman Speyer, National Retail Properties (NYSE: NNN), Cortland Partners, Columbia Property Trust, and Asia Capital Real Estate (ACRE). Nick holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Nick resides in Georgia with his wife and their son.

Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

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Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

Biography

Hogan Barnes is an associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow in April of 2020, Mr. Barnes served as an analyst at Jones Lang Lasalle (NYSE: JLL) on their capital markets team specializing in debt and equity placement as well as multifamily investment sales. At JLL, Hogan was involved in numerous transactions across a multitude of asset classes such as office, industrial, retail, multi-family, student housing, and hotel throughout the Southeast working for a variety of clients including REITs and private equity firms. Responsibilities while at JLL included underwriting, due diligence management, and marketing material production. Mr. Barnes holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Georgia, where he majored in finance.

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Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

Biography

Carter Mize Jr. is an Assistant Controller at Northbow Partners. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Mize served as a Senior Auditor at J.M. Huber. At J.M. Huber, Mr. Mize led audits over all three of J.M. Huber’s portfolio companies and their manufacturing plants, both domestic and international. He assisted in the department’s development of data analytics and he also held an advisory role where he created process flows and implemented controls for other departments. Prior to J.M. Huber, he was a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young where he assisted and led financial statement audits over both private and public clients

Carter graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting. Carter resides in Georgia with his wife.

Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

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Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

Biography

Ashley Mayer is counsel for Northbow Partners, LLC where she focuses on corporate, financial, and real estate matters for the company. Mrs. Mayer has worked for private law firms with a focus on transactional work for over a decade, serving as an associate attorney with Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri and later working with a real estate boutique firm in Dexter, Missouri. She counsels clients in conjunction with business entity planning and formatting, structuring and management of real estate investment vehicles, private lending, joint ventures, corporate restructure, debt and equity financing, tax free exchanges, and the acquisition, sale, construction, development, leasing, and management of real estate. Mrs. Mayer is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia (B.A. 2008; J.D., 2011) and is licensed to practice law in the State of Missouri and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ashley resides in Missouri along with her husband Dustin, and their three kids.

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Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

Biography

Ben is the Director of Finance for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Ressel worked in the commercial banking world with both corporate and privately owned lending institutions from 2000 to 2009. Ben then joined Sixty West in 2016 bringing 16 years of banking and finance experience. Having worked both for and with Northbow and Sixty West, Mr. Ressel has assisted with funding for over $500 million in transactions in 30 plus states. Mr. Ressel works with multiple lenders and capital groups to help manage the company’s entire debt portfolio. Ben graduated from Columbia College in 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University in 2012.

Elizabeth D’Aversa
Director of Operations

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Elizabeth D’Aversa​
Director of Operations

Biography

Elizabeth D’Aversa is the Director of Operations for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mrs. D’Aversa served as a Procurement Manager in Capital Investments for WestRock in the Pulp and Paper industry. Elizabeth started her career in chemical manufacturing where she managed facility operations as a Production Engineer for SABIC. Mrs. D’Aversa holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama’s College of Engineering. Elizabeth resides in Georgia with her husband Hayden, and their cat.

Zach Shipps
Principal

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Zach Shipps
Principal

Biography

Zach Shipps is the Founder of Northbow. Prior to founding Northbow, Mr. Shipps was a Vice President in the Capital Markets division of Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) where he sourced and structured over $1.7B in debt and equity across asset types in the U.S. working with clients to source and structure capital to best execute on their business plans. Prior to JLL, he was an Associate with Argosy Real Estate, a $200MM opportunistic real estate fund which invests across major asset classes within the United States where he was responsible for acquisition selection, underwriting, and asset management. 

Mr. Shipps holds a Master’s in Real Estate with a Finance concentration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a NAREIM Fellow and a B.S. in Biology and Business Management from Samford University. Zach resides in Georgia with his wife and their four children. 

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

Bernardo Sacchini
Director, Capital Markets

Biography

Bernardo Sacchini is the Director of Capital Markets for Northbow. Mr. Sacchini also serves as a board member of SSA Group, a family-owned real estate firm with more than 35 years of operations in Venezuela. The SSA Group, under their long-term strategic view, has committed resources and has already started real estate operations in Spain and the US. The group aims to become the 2nd real estate company in the country to enter the Venezuelan capital markets. Bernardo holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UCAB in Caracas, Venezuela and a master’s degree

in Real Estate Development with a concentration in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bernardo resides in Venezuela with his wife Johanna and their two daughters.

Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

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Gary Summers
Chief Financial Officer

Biography

Gary Summers is the Chief Financial Officer of Northbow and Sixty West. Mr. Summers has been with Sixty West since 2018 and Northbow since 2020. Prior to joining Northbow and Sixty West, he worked in banking/finance as a loan officer servicing the Southeast Missouri area. The knowledge and analytical skills he learned during that time has proven to be key to success in his role. Mr. Summers graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University in 2014 and is currently a CPA Candidate. Gary resides in Missouri along with his wife and their two children.

Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

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Nick Wenzel
First Vice President

Biography

Nick Wenzel is a Senior Associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Wenzel served as a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young’s Real Estate Strategy and Transactions team. At Ernst & Young, Mr. Wenzel performed real estate valuations for a variety of clients including REITs, private equity firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He also assisted companies with year end and purchase price accounting support by acting as an auditor’s specialist. As an auditor’s specialist, he worked with the acquisition and asset management teams of clients to review and sign off on their real estate analysis. At Ernst & Young, Nick’s clients included: The Carlyle Group, Greystar, Tishman Speyer, National Retail Properties (NYSE: NNN), Cortland Partners, Columbia Property Trust, and Asia Capital Real Estate (ACRE). Nick holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Nick resides in Georgia with his wife and their son.

Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

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Hogan Barnes
Senior Associate

Biography

Hogan Barnes is an associate at Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow in April of 2020, Mr. Barnes served as an analyst at Jones Lang Lasalle (NYSE: JLL) on their capital markets team specializing in debt and equity placement as well as multifamily investment sales. At JLL, Hogan was involved in numerous transactions across a multitude of asset classes such as office, industrial, retail, multi-family, student housing, and hotel throughout the Southeast working for a variety of clients including REITs and private equity firms. Responsibilities while at JLL included underwriting, due diligence management, and marketing material production. Mr. Barnes holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Georgia, where he majored in finance.

Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

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Carter Mize
Assistant Controller

Biography

Carter Mize Jr. is an Assistant Controller at Northbow Partners. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Mize served as a Senior Auditor at J.M. Huber. At J.M. Huber, Mr. Mize led audits over all three of J.M. Huber’s portfolio companies and their manufacturing plants, both domestic and international. He assisted in the department’s development of data analytics and he also held an advisory role where he created process flows and implemented controls for other departments. Prior to J.M. Huber, he was a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young where he assisted and led financial statement audits over both private and public clients

Carter graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Accounting. Carter resides in Georgia with his wife.

Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

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Ashley Mayer
Corporate Counsel

Biography

Ashley Mayer is counsel for Northbow Partners, LLC where she focuses on corporate, financial, and real estate matters for the company. Mrs. Mayer has worked for private law firms with a focus on transactional work for over a decade, serving as an associate attorney with Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri and later working with a real estate boutique firm in Dexter, Missouri. She counsels clients in conjunction with business entity planning and formatting, structuring and management of real estate investment vehicles, private lending, joint ventures, corporate restructure, debt and equity financing, tax free exchanges, and the acquisition, sale, construction, development, leasing, and management of real estate. Mrs. Mayer is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia (B.A. 2008; J.D., 2011) and is licensed to practice law in the State of Missouri and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ashley resides in Missouri along with her husband Dustin, and their three kids.

Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

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Ben Ressel
Director of Finance

Biography

Ben is the Director of Finance for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mr. Ressel worked in the commercial banking world with both corporate and privately owned lending institutions from 2000 to 2009. Ben then joined Sixty West in 2016 bringing 16 years of banking and finance experience. Having worked both for and with Northbow and Sixty West, Mr. Ressel has assisted with funding for over $500 million in transactions in 30 plus states. Mr. Ressel works with multiple lenders and capital groups to help manage the company’s entire debt portfolio. Ben graduated from Columbia College in 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University in 2012.

Elizabeth D’Aversa​
Director of Operations

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Elizabeth D’Aversa​
Director of Operations

Biography

Elizabeth D’Aversa is the Director of Operations for Northbow. Prior to joining Northbow, Mrs. D’Aversa served as a Procurement Manager in Capital Investments for WestRock in the Pulp and Paper industry. Elizabeth started her career in chemical manufacturing where she managed facility operations as a Production Engineer for SABIC. Mrs. D’Aversa holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama’s College of Engineering. Elizabeth resides in Georgia with her husband Hayden, and their cat.